Mark Znidar comes to Press Pros Magazine after 33 ½ years at The Columbus Dispatch. From 1996 until September 2018, he staffed high school sports, Ohio colleges that included the Mid-American Conference, Ohio State’s upcoming opponents in football and Ohio State baseball. In the previous three seasons he covered the Columbus Clippers triple-A baseball team.
His other beats were Ohio State basketball (1985-88), Clippers (1985-86 and 1989-93), Cincinnati Bengals (1993-95) and NASCAR (1994-2008). He subbed on the Columbus Blue Jackets and Ohio State women’s basketball beats.
In March 2017, Znidar was inducted into the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.
Znidar was born in Cleveland and raised in Richmond Heights. He graduated from Cleveland St. Joseph High School and the University of Dayton. He also worked for The Atlantic City Press, Lake County News-Herald and Baltimore News-American.
He has a daughter, Amanda, and four grandchildren.
Buckeyes 'flip' out in prime-time win over Wisconsin...Tight end Cade Stover's first quarter touchdown (above) set an exciting tone for a impressive offensive effort as the unbeaten Buckeyes throttled Wisconsin in a Saturday night 'special' at the 'Shoe. Mark Znidar writes about it for Sunday's Press Pros.
The unranked Badgers are a throwback team on offense in pounding the ball with tailback Braelon Allen, but are equally physical defensively under coordinator Jim Leonard. Columbus, OH – No football team owns the “Whiteout’’ game quite like Penn State. The athletic department went so far as to patent the term of paying customers wearing
Parents Trevor and Chelsi raise livestock, corn, and alfalfa on the family farm near Mansfield, and their son and two daughters have been integral in the operation since they were kids. Columbus, OH – There was a picture on the various social media websites of Cade Stover working in a barn the day he
